Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?
Sue Monk KiddHe'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.
Sue Monk KiddAt forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem--my chronic inability to astonish myself. I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they're being kind. I didn't fall. I dove.
Sue Monk KiddYou have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
Sue Monk KiddI marvel at how good I was before I met him, how I lived molded to the smallest space possible, my days the size of little beads that passed without passion through my fingers. So few people know what they're capable of. At forty-two I'd never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem - my chronic inability to astonish myself.
Sue Monk Kidd